[wp-forums] Using non-GPL licensed WordPress.org themes

[Amy Hendrix]

Otto, I bow before your encyclopedic memory for weird things themers do!

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> He didn't edit anything. That's just what that theme had in it as of
> version 0.1.2.
>
> https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/cleanr/0.1.2/style.css
>
> That was corrected in later versions of the theme.
>
>
>
> -Otto
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:25 AM, andrew nevins <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Got it :)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Licensing only really exists for distribution. I can say that the
>> > thing on my own site is under the "my cat will shoot laser eye-beams
>> > at you" license and it doesn't mean a damn thing until I try to sell
>> > it to someone else.
>> >
>> > Note, that doesn't mean that I condone changing the license on a theme
>> > that you don't actually own the rights for. Aside from being utterly
>> > meaningless (and 100% NEVER going to stand up in any kind of legal
>> > challenge), it's, let's just say, kind of jerky. But the reasons for
>> > our policy on non-support come down to 1) wanting to support a theming
>> > community that reflects WP philosophy (where what he's doing sucks on
>> > philosophy, but it has absolutely no impact on the rest of the
>> > community) and 2) practical reasons to do with access to their code
>> > (which is freely available in the repo anyway)
>> >
>> > Disclaimers: I don't make these policies. And my cat doesn't actually
>> > have lasers THAT I KNOW OF.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:01 AM, andrew nevins
>> > <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Do you feel like that for non-GPL themes in general?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Amy Hendrix <sabreuse at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Legally speaking, no, they can't change the license -- only the actual
>> > >> copyright owner (that is, the theme author) can do that. However, it's
>> > >> a silly thing they did in their own copy of the theme for their own
>> > >> site, so it's not like they're trying to distribute a relicensed copy.
>> > >> I don't see that it should make one bit of difference to whether they
>> > >> can get support or not, any more than we'd refuse support because
>> > >> someone had changed the color of their left sidebar.
>> > >>
>> > >> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:24 AM, andrew nevins
>> > >> <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> > Someone took the 'Cleanr' theme and changed the license on it to
>> "All
>> > >> > rights reserved", and then created a support thread on the forums
>> for
>> > >> help
>> > >> > with their theme.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Is it right for me to say that we don't support their theme because
>> > it's
>> > >> > non-GPL? Or can they not actually change the license of the theme,
>> > even
>> > >> if
>> > >> > they state it in the stylesheet?
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >>
>> >
>> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-cleanr-h2-css-being-overruled?replies=4&view=all
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